Didn't * declare State of Emergency for NOLA on monday?

[LiberalVoice]

Doesn't that automatically make it the Federal Govt.'s responsibility to act? I mean correct me if im wrong.

[Horse with no Name]

1. It was declared on Saturday

and you are not wrong.

[karlrschneider]

3. That's what I recall too....Saturday

...

[LiberalVoice]

5. I thought either the mayor or governor declared it on saturday or sunday.

Then * did again on monday.

[Connie_Corleone]

2. He declared it Saturday after Blanco did.

Blanco specifically requested federal assistance in order to "save lives and protect property".

[EarlG]

4. Here's the link

This was published to the White House website on Saturday 27, but the state of emergency was declared on Friday 26.

The President today declared an emergency exists in the State of Louisiana and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts in the parishes located in the path of Hurricane Katrina beginning on August 26, 2005, and continuing.

The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives, protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the parishes of Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, Catahoula, Concordia, De Soto, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Lincoln, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Ouachita, Rapides, Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Helena, St. Landry, Tensas, Union, Vernon, Webster, West Carroll, West Feliciana, and Winn.

Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct Federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent Federal funding.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html

[notadmblnd]

7. the last paragraph is key

Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct Federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent Federal funding.

they discretly decided to do nothing for as long as they possibly could.

[skypilot]

8. That'll be scrubbed...

...from the site any second now.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. Saturday. August 27th. nt

[Botany]

9. you are right ..... but 8/27 .......

plus he was told about it before the storm hit. This bush's baby.

flpoljunkie (1000+ posts)
Wed Sep-07-05 11:28 AM

Dr. Max Mayfield, NHC, had conference call with Bush on Sunday re Katrina!

Talkingpointsmemo alerted by reader BP to the article from the St. Pete Times below.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_09_...

I had heard it suggested by a knowledgable source that a White House representative was listening in when National Hurricane Center Chief Max Mayfield gave that briefing to Brown and Chertoff before Katrina hit.

But according to this August 30th article in the St. Petersburg Times, on Sunday the 28th, Mayfield arranged a video conference call with President Bush himself at the Crawford Ranch during which he explained the hurricane's force and destructive potential.

Perhaps this is common knowledge. But I hadn't heard it before. And it would seem to leave little question that the president himself knew the critical information from Mayfield before Katrina even made landfall.

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/30/State/For_forecasting...

On Saturday night, Mayfield was so worried about Hurricane Katrina that he called the governors of Louisiana and Mississippi and the mayor of New Orleans. On Sunday, he even talked about the force of Katrina during a video conference call to President Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.

"I just wanted to be able to go to sleep that night knowing that I did all I could do," Mayfield said.